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Tawaif vs Tawaf - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tawaif and tawaf

is that tawaif is {{cx|South Asia|historical|lang=en}} A professional courtesan serving the nobility, especially under the Mughal Empire; {{cx|pejorative|lang=en}}, a whore while tawaf is the ritual of circumambulating the Kaaba seven times as part of the hajj in Mecca.

tawaif

English

Noun

(tawaif)
  • , a whore.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 11:
  • *:‘The tawaif has graduated from mere singing to dancing.’
  • *2008 , Susan Dewey, Hollow Bodies , p. 147:
  • *:Characterized by its soft eroticism, mujra'' was performed by courtesans called ''tawaif who were an integral part of life in the Mughal court.
  • *2008 , Gayatri Chatterjee, in Sahni, Shankar, Apte (Eds.), Prostitution and Beyond , p. 290:
  • *:And since the British period, the reputation of a common prostitute has dogged the heels of the tawaif .

    • tawaf

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia tawaf) (en noun)
  • (Islam) The ritual of circumambulating the Kaaba seven times as part of the hajj in Mecca

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